Kim Wilkins quotes

Kim Wilkins quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Anyone who ever loves anyone truly loves them because of their indefinable essence, not because they conform to some checklist.”
-- Kim Wilkins

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“History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.”

Source : A. L. Rowse (2016). “The Use of History”, p.45, Routledge
“The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.”
“The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.”
“I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.”
“Conforming is not cool.”
“Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody.”

Source : "Aimee Teegarden Dishes on Her Teen Years!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 5, 2010.
“Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.”
“The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.”
“That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.”
“Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.”

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